Hair waver



L. POTEMKIN HAIR WAVER Filed Dec. 31. 1921 INVENTOR y Lam //ei'a BV/ ATTORNEY i Patented F eb. 5, 1924.

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Heim wAvEnf. l' i Application filed .il-)ecember 31,1921. .SerialNd 526,162.'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs POTEMKIN, a citizen of Russia, and resident of New York city, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Wavers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for waving or curling womens hair.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple hair waver that will have the efect to retain the hair lock or strand under compression by means of outer bars having corrugations pressing against opposite outer sides of such lock or strand to cause the latter to assume a wavy condition.

My invention comprises an inner bar around which a lock or strand of hair is to be wound and two outer bars to be clamped against said hair, said outer bars having corrugations to engage the outer sides of said hair to indent it, and means to detachably connect the free ends of said outer bars together. Y

My invention also comprises novel details of improvement that will be more fully hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, w-hereinn Figure 1 is a perspective view of my 1mproved hair Waver;

Fig. 2 is a side view ofthe Waver in position of use;

Fig. 3k is an edge view of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view, and

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5, 5, in Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the-several views.

The numeral 1 indicates an inner or central bar, around which a lock or strand of hair is to be wound in an ordinary manner, and at 2, 3, are outer bars on opposite sides of the inner bar to bear upon said wound hair. The bars 1, 2, 3 are shown united at one end by a rivet 4 which serves as a pivot for bar 1 between the outer bars 2, 3, the opposite outer ends of which bars are normally free from one another. The bars 2, 3, are shown made in a single piece of material bent at 5. The bars 2, 3 at their free portions beyond rivet 4 have a normal outward spring tendency, being made of elastic material, such as suitable spring metal. The bars 2,3 are corrugated transversely so as to press into or dent the hair wound on bar 1 when clamped against the hair.

y The outer ends of the bars are adapted to be detachably connected together. The outer free end of bar 2 is shown bent to eX- tend reversely vover and spaced from the bar, to not interfere with the adjacent end of bar 1 but in position to cooperate with the free end of bar 3 to retain it. The bars 2 and'3 are longer than bar 1. The end 2a of bar 2 is internally recessed or dented at 2b in an outward direction to receive the reduced end 3a of bar 3. Said recess 2b opens vthrough the inner edge of end 2a of bar 1 to receive end 3a of bar 3 and has side webs or walls 2c to prevent sidewise movement of bar 3, (Fig. 5).

When my improved hair waver is to be used the bars 2 and 3 are separated, (Fig. 1), the bar 1 may be swung on pivot 4to eX- tend laterally, and a suitable lock or strand of hair is wound around bar 1, as in a spiral direction from its inner to its outer end. The bars 2, 3, are then pressed together to bear against the opposite sides of the wound hair 6, the free ends of bars 2, 3 being locked together, due to' their outward spring tendency, Fig. 3. The bars 2, 3 have sufiicient flexibility to permit their free ends to be moved sideways to permit insertion of end 3ZL to recess 2b to retain the bars locked, and to permit the reverse operation to release the bars. When the bars are clamped upon the hair on bar 1, the corrugations of the bars 2, 3 press against the hair forcibly, being resisted by the inner bar 1, whereby the hair is dented from the exterior. By retaining the hair clamped between the corrugated bars for a suiicient time the hair will be given a so-called wavy appearance or condition, the

vresiliency of the bars serving to retain them snugly against the hair. The Waver may be removed from the hair by pushing bar 1 with the attached hair sideways from between the bars 2, 3, and lthen removing bar 1 from the hair, without requiring to separate bars 2 and 3.

lVhile I have shown an inner bar 1 and two outer corrugated bars the Waver may have a single outer corrugated bar which will cooperate with the inner bar to retain them locked in the manner described respectingbars 2 and 3. 11

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secured together at corresponding ends and extending divergently therefrom, one of said bars having a return end portion extending over said bar, said end portion'having an inner recess opening through the edge of Said end portion, and provided With sidel W Webs, the corresponding endof the other bar being reduced to it in said recess between said Webs, Said bars having anroutward spring tendency to retain said reduced end in said recess, and a third bar pivoted between the first-named ends of the other bars.

Signed 'aty Nevv York city, in the county of New York, and State of Nevs7 York, this 30th day of December, A. D. 1921.

LOUIS POTEMKIN. 

